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Ok this is a bit hard to explain. When I upgraded to gnome 2.24 I set my screensaver to blank and set the option to have a password dialogue box to pop when I try to get back in. All fine and dandy. But now when I move the mouse it displays the blade of grass from previous gnome instead of the black screen it used to show. How in the world do I get to to be unlock screen on black background again?
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I have this same problem, its definently something new with 2.24. I really hope theres somewhere it can be turned off?
Basically the lock screen now has a custom background defined (grass), where as previously it was just black.
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The recent gnome-screensaver should read your background preferences from gconf to show the same background as your normal desktop background. It's bugged however, which makes it always show the default background. A bug is already reported upstream, but there's no action taken on it yet.
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The recent gnome-screensaver should read your background preferences from gconf to show the same background as your normal desktop background. It's bugged however, which makes it always show the default background. A bug is already reported upstream, but there's no action taken on it yet.
And what if you don't set your background with gnome/nautilus ?
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Having this problem too. Will wait for upstream to fix
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In the meantime we can all just create an all black image and save it as /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg
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Seems like this is not a bug at all:
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Well that's annoying
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replacing /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg with another picture does not solve it on my comp.. now I just get a full green screen instead of this greeny grass
hope they fix it soon
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replacing /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg with another picture does not solve it on my comp.. now I just get a full green screen instead of this greeny grass
hope they fix it soon
Same thing happens for me, really quite annoying.
Any update on when/if this will be fixed upstream?
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Are your permissions and ownership on the file correct?
$ ll /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136K 2008-11-12 09:23 /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg
Last edited by fukawi2 (2009-01-13 21:35:11)
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ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/
total 744
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-27 17:04 abstract
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265046 2009-01-13 10:35 background-default.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 477420 2009-01-13 10:35 background-default.jpg.bak
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-27 17:04 nature
Looks right to me.
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That's strange -- I'm out of ideas, sorry
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Thanks for trying anyway. Not a real showstopper just a minor annoyance.
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^^FWIW Changing the default image *did* work for me, so there's something else in play here. I don't know what to think it would be, however.
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How exactly do you *disable* this option entirely? I've lazily looked through menus, but I haven't found anything on it...
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it has been some time since then (so some updates were made), and now i tried replacing the image again and it worked...
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Bump ...
Changing /usr/share/pixmaps/backgrounds/gnome/background-default.jpg doesnt help, my lock screen background is now always grey
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You want to look at /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml
Specifically, you want the section:
<dir name="background">
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<entry name="secondary_color" mtime="1262491977" type="schema" stype="string" owner="gnome">
<local_schema locale="C" short_desc="Secondary Color">
<default type="string">
<stringvalue>#1166aa</stringvalue>
</default>
<longdesc>Right or Bottom color when drawing gradients, not used for solid color.</longdesc>
</local_schema>
</entry>
<entry name="primary_color" mtime="1262491977" type="schema" stype="string" owner="gnome">
<local_schema locale="C" short_desc="Primary Color">
<default type="string">
<stringvalue>#1166aa</stringvalue>
</default>
<longdesc>Left or Top color when drawing gradients, or the solid color.</longdesc>
</local_schema>
</entry>
...
</dir>
Those hex values are by default #66ba00 if you want to search for them that way (assuming you haven't changed these somehow), but this is indeed the perpetrating codeblock. The trick here is that you must reboot in order to see results! Other parts of this code let you change the path to the background image, as opposed to copying over the default, etc.
Hope this helps!
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I know this is an old thread, but I'm going to bump it for good reason.
I ran into this problem as well, and as a solution, I created a simlink to my current wallpaper. It worked the first time (making sure permissions remained the same)
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Gnome has a "Make Default" button on the wallpaper selection window now
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Hey fukawi, where is this claimed "Make Default" button. I don't see it.
-Shane
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It's a fedora patch, it's not there in vanilla gnome.
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